Where the Green Ants Dream ( Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen )

Where the Green Ants Dream (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
96 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog

Written By:
Werner Herzog

Actors:
Bruce Spence ..... Lance Hackett
Wandjuk Marika ..... Miliritbi
Roy Marika ..... Dayipu
Ray Barrett ..... Cole
Norman Kaye ..... Baldwin Ferguson
Ralph Cotterill ..... Fletcher
Nick Lathouris ..... Arnold
Basil Clarke ..... Judge Blackburn
Ray Marshall ..... Solicitor General Coulthard
Dhungala I. Makika ..... Watson
Gary Williams ..... Fitzsimmons
Tony Llewellyn-Jones ..... Young attorney
Robert Brissenden ..... Supermarket manager
Michael Edols
Bob Ellis

Synopsis:

The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various 'solutions' such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 March, 2006.

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